Current events: 2024-05-13

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Rafah offensive
    • The Israeli military advances into northern and southern Gaza. (Reuters)
    • A staff member of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security is killed and another is injured in Rafah. (United Nations)
  • Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
    • Hamas says it has "lost contact" with the militants holding four Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2024 Kharkiv offensive
    • Russia claims its troops have entered the town of Vovchansk, 74km from Kharkiv. (BBC)

Business and economy

• GameStop short squeeze
  • Three years after the previous GameStop stock squeeze, Redditors return to artificially inflate GameStop's share price by 75%, to an 18-month high. AMC's stock also soars more than 70%. (Reuters) (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods
  • The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil rises to 147 people, with 127 people still missing. (Reuters)
• The death toll from the flash flood and the cold lava flow in West Sumatra, Indonesia, increases to 43, while fifteen others are still missing. (Reuters)
• At least four people are killed, 61 injured and more than 40 trapped after a billboard fell during heavy rainstorm in Mumbai, India. (Reuters)
• Canadian National Railway suspends traffic on some railway lines due to wildfires. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• The Airlines for America trade association, along with major US airlines American, Delta, United, JetBlue, Hawaiian, and Alaska, files a lawsuit against the United States Department of Transportation over a rule requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Lithuanian presidential election
  • Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė advance to the run-off election, which will be held on May 26th. (The Guardian)
• 2024 Lithuanian constitutional referendum
  • Lithuania's referendum to allow dual citizenship failed to pass. (LRT)
• A German administrative court in Münster rules that the Alternative for Germany political party may threaten democracy and can be spied on. (The Washington Post)

Science and technology

• The final remains of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, are demolished by explosives. (East Bay Times)

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